Infernalist:I imagine by the time that we reach a future where the average lifespan reaches 150, we'll have adapted our society to fit.

One would hope.

Imagine if you will [cue Twilight Zone music] someone who had been born in 1850 and was still alive today. Now look at the changes that person has had to go through, adapt to, accept and adjust to. Social mores, dress, lifestyle, housing, language, politics....if you're not a completely flexible and adaptable person, just the environmental changes would drive you mad over the course of your long life. Hell, in my aged grandmother's life (she's 98) we've gone from most people still traveling by horse and train, and using kerosene, to jet travel and the Internet. Not everyone can tolerate that kind of change.

It's not a question of "would you want to" live to be 150, or even if you could afford it, it's whether psychologically you could endure the massive alterations you'd experience. Look at all the people anxious to revert to a pre-1950's idyll, and imagine them forced to live a century and a half.

There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of eternity becomes momentarily unbearable. Living in the shadows, feeding in the darkness with only your own company to keep, rots into a solitary, hollow existence. Immortality seems like a good idea, until you realize you're going to spend it alone. So I went to sleep, hoping that the sounds of the passing eras would fade out, and a sort of death might happen. But as I lay there, the world didn't sound like the place I had left, but something different.[rock music begins]

Better. It became worthwhile to rise again as new gods were born and worshipped. Night and day, they were never alone. I would become one of them.[feeds]

Whether it was that first meal, or a hundred years of rest, I'm not sure. But suddenly I was feeling better than ever. My senses so high they led me straight to the instrument of my resurrection, playing in my old house.

I just barely saw "space thread" before all my tabs disappeared and I looked around, no space thread here?

No of course it's not. It's a life extension thread, your other bread and butter.

And I just figured out how life extension works in your mind.

Atoms don't age, as of course you know. And entropy is the fate of all matter in the universe as Newton taught us.

So instead of eating food from an external source, thus introducing entropy into your system, you merely recycle your own atoms! Your own urine, feces, and semen you happily lap up, for the sole purpose of regurgitating the same predictable shiat on Fark. You'll live forever this way. Good show!

Longevity will create an increase in the number of people claiming "waifus" and "husbandos" as legal spouses. Eventually, this will result in the collapse of society and the possible extinction of humanity. It's already starting in Japan.

djkutch:John marries a woman 20 years younger, ensuring he will have a partner who can look after his well-being, taking him to all his body-part-replacement appointments as he moves toward his first centennial.

Ann, at 120, takes a well-sculpted 70-year-old boyfriend, but prudently decides to live with rather than marry him.

Same shiat as now, but I gotta believe Ann is in pedo territory.

Half your age plus seven. At 120 that puts the floor at 67. So she's fine.

John marries a woman 20 years younger, ensuring he will have a partner who can look after his well-being, taking him to all his body-part-replacement appointments as he moves toward his first centennial.

Ann, at 120, takes a well-sculpted 70-year-old boyfriend, but prudently decides to live with rather than marry him.